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A
- Windmill and Watermill Collection of Edward Mitford Abraham [Photography]
- Accounting Standards Committee Archive [Archive]
- Accrington Conservative Association and Accrington Conservative Club Archives [Archive]
- Robert Adamson Papers [Archive]
- Agecroft Rowing Club Archive [Archive]
- Alexis Aladin Papers [Archive]
- Aldine Collection [Printed]
- Samuel Alexander Papers [Archive]
- Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners Archive [Archive]
- American Sunday School Union Collection [Printed]
- Ancoats Social Survey Archive [Archive]
- Anvil Press Archive [Archive]
- Arabic Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Archive [Archive]
- Architectural Printed Works [Printed]
- Arderne Deeds [Archive]
- Lodovico Ariosto Printed Works [Printed]
- David Arkell Papers [Archive]
- Armenian Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Ashburne Hall Collection [Printed]
- Ashton Textile Employers' Association Archive [Archive]
- Ashworth Cross Family Papers [Archive]
- Association of Certifying Factory Surgeons Archive [Archive]
- Astle Deeds [Archive]
- Auchinleck Papers [Archive]
- Audenshaw Foundation Archive [Archive]
- Auditing Practices Committee Archive [Archive]
- Axon Papers [Archive]
B
- Bagshawe Family Muniments [Archive]
- Henry Baker Papers [Manuscript]
- Bannatyne Club and Maitland Club [Printed]
- Baskerville Press [Printed]
- Mary Bateson Papers [Archive]
- Beaumont Charters [Archive]
- Leonard Behrens Papers [Archive]
- Bellot Papers [Archive]
- Hugh H. Bellot Book Collection [Printed]
- Benson Collection [Printed]
- Joseph Benson Papers [Archive]
- Bible Collection [Printed]
- Bible in Basic English Collection [Archive]
- Handley Bird Papers [Archive]
- Joseph Black Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Harold Blundell (George Bellairs) Papers [Archive]
- Giovanni Boccaccio Printed Works [Printed]
- Giambattista Bodoni Printed Works [Printed]
- Bolton and District Operative Cotton Spinners' Provincial Association Archive [Archive]
- Booker and Mills Map Collections [Maps]
- Botfield Papers [Archive]
- Hugh Bourne Collection [Archive]
- Vivian Bowden Papers [Archive]
- Bowring Papers [Manuscript]
- Alison Brackenbury Papers [Archive]
- Dr Bray Clerical Lending Library [Printed]
- Britain in Pictures Collection [Printed]
- Brockbank Cricket Collection [Printed]
- Bromley Davenport Muniments [Archive]
- George L. Brook Drama Collection [Printed]
- George L. Brook Theology Collection [Printed]
- Brooke of Mere Muniments [Archive]
- Bullock Collection [Printed]
- John Bunyan Printed Works [Printed]
- E. L. Burney Book Collection [Printed]
- Lord Byron Printed Works [Printed]
C
- Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre Archive [Archive]
- Carcanet Press Archive [Archive]
- Carcanet Press Book Collection [Printed]
- Carrington Papers [Archive]
- Olga X. Casdagli Book Collection [Printed]
- James Cassedy Book Collection [Printed]
- John Charnley Collection [Archive]
- Children's Printed Collection [Printed]
- Chinese Collection [Printed/Manuscript]
- Christian Brethren Archive [Archive/Printed]
- Christian Women’s Information and Resource Service Archive [Archive/Printed]
- Christie Collection [Printed]
- W. M. Christy and Sons Ltd. Archive [Archive]
- Richard Church Papers [Archive]
- Adam Clarke Papers [Archive]
- Classical Literature [Printed]
- Clayton and Morris Papers [Manuscript]
- Clinton Papers [Archive]
- Clogher Diocesan Library Collection [Printed]
- Clowes Deeds [Archive]
- William Clowes Papers [Archive]
- Richard Cobden Letters [Manuscript]
- Alvin Langdon Coburn Photography Collection [Printed/Photography]
- Thomas Coke Papers [Archive]
- Margaret Collin Papers [Archive]
- Congregational College Archives [Archive]
- Congregational College Printed Collection [Printed]
- William Mansfield Cooper Papers [Archive]
- Copinger-Hartland Manuscripts Collection [Manuscript]
- Coptic Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Cornwall-Legh Muniments [Archive]
- County Histories [Printed]
- Lewis Court Bible Christian Collection [Archive]
- Brian Cox Papers [Archive]
- Brian Cox Printed Collection [Printed]
- Jack Cox Papers [Archive]
- Jack Cox Printed Collection [Printed]
- Walter Crane Archive [Archive]
- Crawford Collection [Manuscript]
- Critical Quarterly Archive [Archive]
- Robert Crozier Collection [Archive]
- W. P. Crozier Papers [Archive]
- Durward Cruickshank Papers [Archive]
- Crutchley Muniments [Archive]
- Cuban Women Writers Collection [Printed]
- Cuneiform Tablets [Manuscript]
- Neil Curry Papers [Archive]
D
- Dale Papers [Archive]
- John Dalton Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Dante Alighieri Printed Works [Printed]
- John Nelson Darby Papers [Archive]
- Alfred Darbyshire Collection [Archive]
- Rupert Davies Papers [Archive]
- Sir William Boyd Dawkins Papers [Archive]
- Deaf Education Collection [Printed]
- Basil Dean Archive [Archive]
- Basil Dean Book Collection [Printed]
- Delia Derbyshire Papers [Archive]
- Ely Devons Papers [Archive]
- Robert Donat Archive [Archive]
- Daniel Dougal Diaries [Archive]
- Anthony Dowd Bindings Collection [Printed]
- Ducie Muniments [Archive]
- Robert Dunlop Papers [Archive]
- Dutch Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Tony Dyson Papers [Archive]
E
- Early Preachers Collection [Archive]
- East India Company Papers [Manuscript]
- Echoes of Service Archive [Archive]
- Egerton of Tatton Papers [Archive]
- Egyptian Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Eighteenth-Century Literary Publications [Printed]
- Election Literature Collection [Printed]
- English Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- English Tract Collection [Printed]
- Raymond English Anti-Slavery Collection [Archive]
- Engravers' Trade Unions Archive [Archive]
- Esperanto Collection [Printed]
- Ethiopian Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Alfred Cyril Ewing Papers [Archive]
F
- B. R. Faunthorpe Papers relating to Joseph Whitworth [Archive]
- Elaine Feinstein Papers [Archive]
- Frederick S. Ferguson Book Collection [Printed]
- Fielden Brothers Papers [Archive]
- Samuel Finer Papers [Archive]
- Finney of Fulshaw Deeds [Archive]
- Fletcher-Tooth Collection [Archive]
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office Pamphlet Collection [Printed]
- Foulis Press [Printed]
- Frankland Papers [Archive]
- Edward Freeman Papers [Archive]
- Edward Freeman Printed Collection [Printed]
- Allen Freer Book Collection [Printed]
- Allen Freer Papers [Archive]
- French Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- French Revolution Collection [Printed]
- Freud Family Papers [Archive]
- Fry Collection [Archive]
G
- Elizabeth Gaskell Manuscript Collection [Manuscript]
- Elizabeth Gaskell Printed Works [Printed]
- Moses Gaster Collection [Manuscript and printed]
- Moses Gaster Manuscripts Collection [Manuscript]
- Moses Gaster Papers [Archive/Printed]
- Rylands Cairo Genizah Collection [Manuscript]
- German Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- George Gissing Collection [Printed/Archive]
- Max Gluckman Papers [Archive]
- John Graham Papers [Archive]
- Greater Manchester Mill Survey Archive [Archive]
- Greek Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Green Anti-Methodist Collection [Printed]
- Grey (Stamford) of Dunham Massey Papers [Archive]
- Guardian (formerly Manchester Guardian) Archive [Archive]
- Giovanni Battista Guarini Printed Works [Printed]
- Derek Guttery Papers [Archive]
H
- Mary Hamilton Papers [Archive]
- Rodney Harris Papers [Archive]
- Hartley Victoria College Collection [Archive]
- L. P. Hartley Book Collection [Printed]
- L. P. Hartley Papers [Archive]
- Haskalah Collection [Printed]
- Hayloft Press Archive [Archive]
- Heald-Hall Family Papers [Archive]
- Hebrew Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Gustave Adolphe Hemsalech Papers [Archive]
- Henshaws (Henshaw’s Society for Blind People) Archive [Archive]
- Hibbert-Ware Papers [Manuscript]
- Sydney Hickson Papers [Archive]
- Leslie Hilliard Papers [Archive]
- Samuel Hird Papers [Archive]
- History of Computing Collection [Archive/Printed]
- Hobill Collection [Printed]
- Hodgson, Robinson and Company Archive [Archive]
- Hiero von Holtorp Collection [Printed]
- Annie Horniman Papers [Archive]
- dom sylvester houédard Book Collection [Printed]
- dom sylvester houédard Papers [Archive]
- Mark Hovell Papers [Archive]
- Peter Huchel Collection of German Literature [Printed]
- Victor Hugo Book Collection [Printed]
- Victor Hugo Collection [Archive]
- Holman Hunt Papers [Manuscript]
- Hugh Hunt Papers [Archive]
- Robert Salmon Hutton Papers [Archive]
I
- ICI Dyestuffs Division Archive [Archive]
- Icelandic Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Illustrated Books [Printed]
- Incunabula Collection [Printed]
- Indian Empire and East India Company Printed Works [Printed]
- Industrial Mission Association Archive [Archive]
- Irish Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Ian Isherwood Papers [Archive]
- Italian Manuscripts [Manuscript]
J
- Jackson Family Papers [Archive]
- Dawson Jackson Papers [Archive]
- Jamison Family Archive [Archive]
- Japanese Collection [Printed/Manuscript]
- Sir Geoffrey Jefferson Papers [Archive]
- Elizabeth Jennings Papers [Archive]
- Jevons Family Papers [Archive]
- Jewsbury Papers [Manuscript]
- Jodrell Bank Observatory Archive [Archive]
- Jodrell Muniments [Archive]
- Adam Johnson Papers [Archive]
- George Johnson Wood-Engraving Collection [Printed]
- Samuel Johnson Printed Works [Printed]
- Stephen Joseph Papers [Archive]
- James Prescott Joule Papers [Archive]
K
- James Kay-Shuttleworth Papers [Archive]
- Jack Keiser Papers [Archive]
- Michael Kennedy Papers [Archive]
- Claude Kinder Papers [Archive]
- Gordon Kinder Collection [Archive/Printed]
- Zdenek Kopal Papers [Archive]
L
- Walter Savage Landor Papers [Manuscript]
- Ronald Lane Papers [Archive]
- Latin Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- League of the Good Samaritan Archive [Archive]
- Legh of Lyme Muniments [Archive]
- Leycester of Toft Muniments [Archive]
- Li Yuan-chia Archive [Archive]
- Grevel Lindop Papers [Archive]
- Lloyd Roberts Collection [Printed]
- Jan Łukasiewicz Papers [Archive]
M
- James Ramsay MacDonald Papers [Archive]
- Niccolò Machiavelli Printed Works [Printed]
- Mainwaring Manuscripts [Archive]
- Manchester Airport Second Runway Inquiry Archive [Archive]
- Manchester Classical Association, Excavations Committee Records [Archive]
- Manchester Egyptian and Oriental Society Archive [Archive]
- Manchester Geographical Society Archive [Archive]
- Manchester Geographical Society Collection [Printed/Maps]
- Manchester Geographical Society Photographic Slides Collection [Photography]
- Manchester Joint Research Council Archive [Archive]
- Manchester Masonic Research Collection [Printed]
- Manchester Mechanics' Institution Archive [Archive]
- Manchester Medical Collection [Archive/Printed]
- Manchester Medical Society Archive [Archive]
- Manchester Museum Archive [Archive]
- Manchester Pharmaceutical Association Archive [Archive]
- Manchester Reform Club Archive [Archive]
- Manchester Settlement Archive [Archive]
- Manchester Society of Architects Archive [Archive]
- Manchester and Salford College for Women Archive [Archive]
- Thomas Manson Papers [Archive]
- John P. Marmion Book Collection [Printed]
- Marmorstein Collection [Printed]
- Arthur Milnes Marshall Papers [Archive]
- Mathematical Printed Works [Printed]
- Mazarinades Collection [Printed]
- Grigor McClelland Papers [Archive]
- McConnel and Kennedy Archive [Archive]
- Chris McCully Papers [Archive]
- Medical Manuscripts Collection [Manuscript]
- Medical Printed Collections [Printed]
- Records of the Medici Family of Florence [Archive]
- Melville Papers [Manuscript]
- Methodist Printed Book and Periodical Collections [Printed]
- Micklethwaite Correspondence [Manuscript]
- Midgley Reference Library [Printed]
- K. G. Millward Collection [Printed/Archive]
- John Milton Printed Works [Printed]
- George Mitchell Papers [Archive]
- Mo-So (Na-khi) Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Allan Monkhouse Papers [Archive]
- C. E. Montague Papers [Archive]
- Moravian Church Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Edgar Morton Papers [Archive]
- Mount Stuart Collection [Manuscript]
- Douglas Munro Alexandre Dumas père Collection [Printed]
- Thomas Munro Papers [Archive]
- Charles Fairfax Murray Papers [Manuscript]
- Music Collections [Manuscript/Printed/Archive]
N
- Lewis Namier Papers [Archive/Manuscript]
- Nantwich Parochial Library [Printed]
- National Medical Union Archive [Archive]
- Natural History and Ornithology Printed Works [Printed]
- Sir John E. Neale Book Collection [Printed]
- Francis Neilson Papers [Archive]
- Newbold Papers [Archive]
- Nicholas Papers [Archive]
- Nicholson Papers [Manuscript]
- Andrew Nicholson Book Collection [Printed]
- Norman Nicholson Book Collection [Printed]
- Norman Nicholson Papers [Archive]
- J. R. Allardyce Nicoll Drama Collection [Printed]
- Nineteenth-Century Fiction [Printed]
- John Howard Nodal Archive [Archive]
- Marie Riefstahl Nordlinger Proust Collection [Printed]
- North West Playwrights Archive [Archive]
- North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society Archive [Archive]
- Northern Baptist College Archive [Archive]
- Northern Baptist College Printed Collection [Printed]
- Jeff Nuttall Papers [Archive]
O
- Dorman O’Gowan Papers [Archive]
- Oldham Textile Employers’ Association Archive [Archive]
- Oldknow Papers [Archive]
- Orford Papers [Archive]
- Owen Owens and Son Archive [Archive]
P
- Pali Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Martin Parr Photography Collection [Photography]
- Parsi Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Partington Collection [Printed]
- Arthur Samuel Peake Papers [Archive]
- Persian Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Francesco Petrarch Printed Works [Printed]
- Henry Pettitt Papers [Archive]
- Phillipps Charters [Archive]
- Photography Collection [Photography]
- Margaret Pilkington Papers [Archive]
- Pink Papers [Manuscript]
- Pit Prop Theatre Company Archive [Archive]
- Pitt Collection [Manuscript]
- Sir Harry Platt Papers [Archive]
- Pluscarden Charters [Archive]
- Marcia Pointon Papers [Archive]
- British Political Pamphlets [Printed]
- Poll Book Collection [Printed]
- Giovanni Pontiero Papers [Archive]
- Giovanni Pontiero Papers [Archive]
- Ronald Preston Papers [Archive]
- Private Press Collection [Printed]
- Humphrey Procter-Gregg Archive [Archive]
- Protestant Reformation Printed Works [Printed]
R
- Thomas Raffles Book Collection [Printed]
- Thomas Raffles Collection [Manuscript]
- Railway Collections [Printed]
- Harold Burgoyne Rattenbury Papers [Archive]
- John Ernest Rattenbury Papers [Archive]
- John Rattenbury Papers [Archive]
- Stephen Raw Papers [Archive]
- Rawson/Wilson Anti-Slavery Papers [Manuscript]
- Eve Reymond Papers [Archive]
- Dorothy Richardson Papers [Manuscript]
- Michael Robbins London Collection [Printed]
- Henry Roscoe Papers [Archive/Manuscript]
- Frederick Rose Papers [Archive]
- William Michael Rossetti Papers [Manuscript]
- Henry Ling Roth Papers [Archive]
- Roundell Muniments [Archive]
- Peter Rowe Archive [Archive]
- Roxburghe Club Collection [Printed]
- Royal Botanical and Horticultural Society of Manchester and the Northern Counties Archive [Archive]
- John Ruskin Papers [Manuscript]
- John Ruskin Printed Works [Printed]
- Rylands Charters [Archive]
- Rylands and Sons Archive [Archive]
- Hymn Collection of John Rylands [Printed]
- John Rylands Library Archive [Manuscript]
S
- Frank Owen Salisbury Papers [Archive]
- Samaritan Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Michael Schmidt Papers [Archive]
- Arthur Schuster Papers [Archive]
- Sedbergh School Library Collection [Printed]
- Seventeenth-Century Literary Publications [Printed]
- Shackleton Collection [Printed]
- William Shakespeare Printed Works [Printed]
- John Geoffrey Sharps Papers [Archive]
- William Arthur Shaw Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Simon Engineering Group Archive [Archive]
- Heinrich Simon Papers [Archive]
- Edward Allatt Upton Sinclair Book Collection [Printed/Archive]
- Peter Slade Collection [Archive]
- Smith Memorial Collection and Schunck Library [Printed]
- Grafton Elliot Smith Papers [Archive]
- Society of Medical Officers of Health, North Western Branch Archive [Archive]
- South-East Asian Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Spanish Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Spencer Collection [Printed]
- Edmund Spenser Printed Works [Printed]
- Spielmann Collection [Manuscript]
- Howard Spring Book Collection [Printed]
- Howard Spring Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Spring-Rice Collection [Manuscript]
- Stanbrook Abbey Press Collection [Printed]
- Stanley of Alderley Deeds and Papers [Archive]
- Stapleton Manuscripts [Archive]
- Wallace Stevens and the Cummington Press Collection [Archive]
- Richard F. Stewart Book Collection [Printed]
- Stirland Public Health Collection [Archive]
- Marie Stopes and Birth Control Collection [Printed]
- John Strachan Book Collection [Printed]
- John Strachan Papers [Archive]
- Walter Strachan Collection [Archive]
- Raymond Streat Papers [Archive]
- Street Literature Collection [Printed]
- Sun Mill Archive [Archive]
- Sutherland Collection [Printed]
- Syriac Manuscripts [Manuscript]
T
- Tabley Book Collection [Printed]
- Tabley Muniments [Archive]
- Alan Tabor Calligraphy Collection [Works of Art]
- James Tait Papers [Archive]
- Tanks Group Archive [Archive]
- Torquato Tasso Printed Works [Printed]
- Amable Tastu Papers [Archive]
- Tatton of Wythenshawe Muniments [Archive]
- Tealdi Correspondence [Manuscript]
- Teltscher Collection [Printed]
- Nigel Temple Book Collection [Printed]
- Tobias Theodores Papers [Archive]
- Francis Thompson Collection [Printed]
- Thomson-Byrom Collection [Archive]
- Thrale-Piozzi Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Tibetan Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Tout Family Archive [Archive]
- Tregaskis Bindings Collections [Printed]
- Alan Turing Collections [Archive]
- Turkish Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Dame Mabel Tylecote Papers [Archive]
- Dame Mabel Tylecote Printed Collection [Printed]
- Tynan-Hinkson Book Collection [Printed]
- Moses Tyson Papers [Archive]
U
- Unitarian College Archives [Archive]
- Unitarian College Printed Collection [Printed]
- University of Manchester Archives [Archive]
- University of Manchester Halls of Residence Archives [Archive]
- University of Manchester Student Ephemera Collection [Archive]
- University of Manchester Students' Union Archive [Archive]
- George Unwin Papers [Archive]
- Sir Raymond Unwin Papers [Archive]
- Urwick Library [Printed]
- Alison Uttley Book Collection [Printed]
- Alison Uttley Papers [Archive]
V
- The British Victorian Photography Collection [Photography]
- Eugène Vinaver Collection [Printed]
- George H. Viner Bookplate Collection [Printed]
- Elfrida Vipont Papers [Archive]
- Eric Voegelin Book Collection [Printed]
- Voyages and Travels Printed Works [Printed]
W
- Wadsworth Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Warburton of Arley Muniments and Related Collections [Archive]
- Claude Wilson Wardlaw Papers [Archive]
- Mark Warner Photography Collection [Photography]
- Wedgwood Correspondence [Manuscript]
- Dennis and Joan Welland Papers [Archive]
- Dennis Welland, Wilfred Owen Book Collection [Printed]
- Wesley Collection (Rylands) [Printed]
- Wesley Family papers (Methodist Collections) [Archive]
- Charles Wesley Family Library [Printed]
- Charles Wesley Papers [Archive]
- Western (European) Manuscripts [Manuscript]
- Charles White Club Archive [Archive]
- Walt Whitman Book Collection [Printed]
- Walt Whitman Manuscript Collections [Manuscript]
- Whitworth Art Gallery Archive [Archive]
- Wickstead Papers [Archive]
- R. H. Wilenski Papers [Archive]
- John T. Wilkinson Book Collection [Printed]
- John Wilkinson Papers [Archive]
- William Temple Foundation Archives [Archive]
- W. M. Wills Home Front Diaries [Archive]
- Wilmslow Quaker Collection [Printed]
- Papers of D. A. Wilson [Archive]
- Ernest Wilson Papers [Archive]
- H. J. Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection [Printed]
- Orde Wingate Collections [Archive]
- Thomas J. Wise Printed Works [Printed]
- Women in Theology Group Archive [Archive]
- Women's Suffrage Movement Archives [Archive]
- Wood Street Mission Archive [Archive]
- James Woolley, Sons and Co. Ltd Archive [Archive]
- Sir Hubert Worthington Papers [Archive]